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Speaker 1: Fold, reverence and occasionally random The Sunday Hang with Clay

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Speaker 1: and Buck podcast. It starts now. So I stumbled across

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Speaker 1: this over the weekend on my wedding weekend, which was great.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for all the well wishes. By the way,

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Speaker 1: so many of you I appreciate thousands and thousands of

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Speaker 1: people saying congratulations. Thank you all. I love you all.

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to write back to as many as I can,

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Speaker 1: but it's it's been an overwhelming outpouring of sport. Thank

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Speaker 1: you for that. But I have some words of wisdom

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Speaker 1: here from Clay's own hometown, actually from Clay's home state

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Speaker 1: of Tennessee, from his city of Nashville. One of my

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Speaker 1: favorite comedians these days on the scene, and he doesn't curse.

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Speaker 1: It's not all you know, profane crazy stuff. It's you

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Speaker 1: can take your family to see him. Anybody, take your grandparents,

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Speaker 1: your kids. He's really funny. Is Nashville favorite Nate Bargatsy,

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Speaker 1: and he just had some words here. Maybe think of Clay.

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Speaker 1: Play it forty three, you still think you're young. I

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Speaker 1: have this jacket on and I hang out with a

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Speaker 1: twenty three year old and I'm like, you get a dude,

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Speaker 1: which is a couple of young dudes kicking it. Some

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Speaker 1: guy will walk up, he's like, I'm forty five. I'm like,

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Speaker 1: why don't you beat it, old man? I can't believe

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Speaker 1: that guy had the nerve to think he was our age, right, dude,

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Speaker 1: that's crazy. Let's go sit down for a little bit. So,

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Speaker 1: so I'm forty one and Clay's forty three or forty four.

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Speaker 1: So this hit home right away. I'm looking at the

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Speaker 1: twenty something. I'm like, yeah, you know, you're young like me,

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Speaker 1: not like that old man. Clay Travis, Nate Bargass. He's

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Speaker 1: really really funny. He's a friend. We're the exact same

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Speaker 1: for those of you out there who have been to

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Speaker 1: the day it was a lot sleepier of a town.

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Speaker 1: And so U made is really funny. But a lot

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Speaker 1: of his jokes about growing up literally are the experience

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Speaker 1: that I had, right, Like, I mean, it's very rare

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Speaker 1: And obviously he's different comedy. I'm sports in this show

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Speaker 1: You know, he's fantastic. Um. And he's right, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: You're just getting used to, you know, you're getting used

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Speaker 1: looking for something else, and sure enough, I see an

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Speaker 1: of it. The truth is, Black Americans have always been

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Speaker 1: foundational to the idea of American freedom. Fight. It will

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Speaker 1: always be a fight. You are calling for reparations. What

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Speaker 1: be fair, but you know, Clay, a lot of people

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Speaker 1: have come in with including from the from the left left,

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Speaker 1: show the kids how much fun it can be to

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Speaker 1: create kind of this little chicken coop